Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-up: The Betrayal of Princess Diana

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The death of Princess Diana on 31 August 1997 was one of the most dramatic events in recent history. This book will demand a complete reassessment of events leading up to the tragedy. Dianarama is the untold, inside story of the deception and entrapment of Princess Diana, and the cover-up that followed. Andy Webb, the writer and award-winning filmmaker who obtained the secret files that first broke the story of Princess Diana's betrayal by journalist Martin Bashir, now exclusively reveals the true extent of the deception the Princess experienced before giving her iconic 1995 Panorama TV interview, and how key players at the BBC then devised an elaborate cover-up to hide what happened, whilst leaving Diana to her fate. Andy Webb's unrivalled insider access to the key players in the drama ensures a thrilling first-hand narrative, putting the reader inside the room where each key decision was taken. The action spans thirty years, switching from the moment BBC reporter Martin Bashir first contrived his dossier of forged bank statements in 1995 to the 2024 courtroom where Webb faced the BBC's elite legal squad to demand the publication of 10,000 pages of highly contested documents relating to the scandal. A story for the ages, the fate of Princess Diana will be debated by scholars and gossips centuries from now. This book, filled with revelations which have not yet entered the public record, will become a key part in the first draft of history.

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Andy Webb worked as a reporter for BBC Television for more than 15 years, appearing daily as a front-of-camera reporter, first on BBC News then as a reporter and presenter on primetime shows including the BBCsWatchdog, before embarking on a career as an award-winning director of documentary films. It was his journalism over a 15-year period which first revealed the truth behind the infamous BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana and so exposed the greatest scandal in the history of the BBC. Since breaking the story in 2020, Andy Webb has been invited to write on the story for a range of leading publications, including the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph, and has also been interviewed many times on television, radio and podcasts both in the UK and overseas. Andy is married, with four children, and lives in West London.